Examples of doorjamb in a Sentence
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No one had his mysterious feeling for bathroom tiles and doorjambs, table edges, tub rims, mantelpieces and mirrors.
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Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
To my Roomba, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
This is on a placard that's usually located in the driver's-side doorjamb.
—Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
Slide the latch back away from the doorjamb to unlock the door.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
This situation is not like a broken tailight or rubber falling off a doorjamb, Desai said.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2022
To my robovac, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
The doors now have additional sensors that bleep and blink when a person places a hand or pinky finger into the doorjamb, preventing the door from closing.
—Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
To my Roomba, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
This is on a placard that's usually located in the driver's-side doorjamb.
—Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
Slide the latch back away from the doorjamb to unlock the door.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
This situation is not like a broken tailight or rubber falling off a doorjamb, Desai said.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2022
To my robovac, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
The doors now have additional sensors that bleep and blink when a person places a hand or pinky finger into the doorjamb, preventing the door from closing.
—Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
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First Known Use
1727, in the meaning defined above
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“Doorjamb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorjamb. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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doorjamb
noun
door·jamb
-ˌjam 
: a vertical piece that forms a side of a doorway
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